Strong Winds, Downpour Hit Monroe Area In Storm
Heavy clouds moved away as a brief downpour occurred in Monroe and West Monroe with winds reaching 60 mph at 5:05 pm, then easing to 30 40 mph. Some power lines and a few glass windows were damaged in Delhi and Winnsboro, but no injuries were reported.
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Monroe
West
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Selman Field
CAA
News-Star World
Delhi
Bob Anderson
Butane Dealu
Morris
Winnsboro
Pact pledge and resolve shape Asian security conference
Garcia named permanent chairman at Dulles suggestion. Ramon Magsaysay framed the conference as a test of peace and freedom, urging united stand against aggression and tyranny. Dulles stressed a deterrent mix of mobile power and reserves and warned against Soviet expansion and open armed aggression. He urged strengthening trade to bolster free nations economically and militarily.
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Garcia
Dulles
Philippine
Ramon Magsaysay
Asia
United States
Southeast Asia
Demos Ready at the Prosperity Note on Jobs Policy
The piece reports CIO President Walter Reuther accusing the administration of unemployment by neglect and John T. Lewis blasting benefits to organized wealth. It records AFI President Meany criticizing job creation and GOP foreign policy notes, plus Democratic Digest counterpoints on bipartisanship and Eisenhower’s image.
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Mitchell
CIO
Walter Reuther
John T. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Administration
Congress
AFI
George Meany
Cincinnati
GOP National Committee
Democratic Digest
Democratic National Committee
GOP
McCarthy
Knowland
Dirksen
Eisenhower
America
National Road Safety Push Faces High Toll
Eisenhower criticized the National Safety Council estimate as 323 dead from holiday travel. States mobilized to curb wrecks with National Guards, patrols, and aerial leaflets. Michigan declared an emergency with 600 guards and aircraft. Wisconsin Tennessee also boosted patrols. Alabama used police planes to warn drivers. Michigan club urged motorists to return by 5 p.m. or wait until Tuesday.
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Eisenhower
National Safety Council
Michigan
G. Mennen Williams
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Alabama
Michigan State Automobile Club
Dearborn
FBI Evaluation Ties Car Crash to Tree on Lonely Road
Sheriff Bounds cites Hawkins statement about crash near home on Aug 22 as basis for FBI evaluation. He notes no visible car damage despite Hawkins being bloodied and only lightly injured after returning from Bastrop visit to son Delton’s grave. The passage highlights insurance payouts and a prior unsolved hunting accident that killed the Hawkins’ son.
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Bounds
Hawkins
Ile
Bastrop
Delton
Morehouse Parish
Robert Harp
Harp
Two shot in front of Owl Street bar inquiry opened
Two Black men fired upon in front of the Owl street bar with no motive found. Brown and Shirley Sikes 48 West Monroe were detained for investigation after Franklin injured about 11:30 p.m. Saturday. Sikes owned the car. The victim said an unseen shooter fired as he walked toward the bar. Detectives sought the unidentified marksman Monday morning.
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Brown
Shirley Sikes
West Monroe
Sikes
Franklin
Owl Street
Tolbert
Parade Float Highlights Include West Monroe Bands
About 15 000 spectators watched a parade featuring colorful rodeo flags. The West Monroe High School band dressed in western attire along with the West Monroe Rebelette enhanced the procession. Rodeo officials, city and parish officials were involved in the event.
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North Louisiana
Jasper Jones
West Monroe
Allen Norris
Ade
West Monroe High School
President outlines peaceful atomic use plan worldwide
The president proposed methods to allocate fissionable material for peaceful tasks in agriculture medicine and other fields. He urged mobilizing experts to apply atomic energy for humanitarian needs and to provide electricity to power-starved regions. He vowed to press ahead under safeguards and form an international agency with other nations to foster peaceful atomic technology.
Inquiry into Shannon crash details emerges with survivors and fatalities
Launch times show 5:40 a.m. alarm and 7:00 a.m. rescue for a sinking plane. Dutch captain Adriaan Viruly and 6 other crew members survived while 25 bodies were recovered and two remain missing. American Caroline Platz of The Bronx died. Dr. Ernest Bettman of White Plains survived and returned to care.Irish government inspector Richard O Sullivan and Dutch rep C A Falkenhagen lead the inquiry.
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Richard O'Sullivan
C.A.F. Falkenhagen
Adriaan Viruly
Caroline Platz
Bronx
New York
A. I. Aler Kim
Shannon
Ernest H. Bettman
White Plains
N. Y
KLM
German Native Returns Home to U S Citizen
Mrs. Marshall K. Van Fossen, formerly Edith Fenzl, returned to Germany as an American citizen. She will join Sgt. Van Fossen in Fort Hamilton, New York, then Frankfurt, with plans to settle in Butzbach. The trip honors her citizenship won October 1, 1951 after serving as secretary for the Episcopal chaplain and American army occupation work in Germany.
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Germany
Marshall K. VanFossen
Marshall, Jr
Karl Joseph
Butzbach
U. S. Army
Lake Providence
Marshall K. van Fossen
Europe
Fort Hamilton
N. Y
Frankfurt
Giessen
44 Field
Munich
Joseph Fenzl
van Fossen
Edith Fenzl
Episcopal
States
Immigration and Naturalization Office
Court House
Monroe
Army
Korea
Heart Break Hill
F. A. 10Th Corps
Camp Desert Rock
New
Uncivilized rulers face reaction over Soviet attack
The piece brands Soviet aggression as proof of Communist tyranny and urges breaking diplomatic ties. It calls for the Soviet ambassador and staff to be sent home, portraying the Russian people as the first victims of Communist oppression.
U.S. Neptune Aircraft Downed After Soviet Air Clash
The United States and Soviet Union exchanged notes after a two engine propeller Neptune was fired upon by Soviet planes over international airspace. Washington said the Russians opened fire first and caused the Neptune to crash, while Moscow claimed American planes provoked the incident. Senate leader Knowland criticized the State Department reply as another Kremlin note.
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Moscow
Russia
Washington
Charles E. Bohlen
Kremlin
U.S
Soviet Union
Asst
Fred A. Seaton
U. S
High Seas
Knowland
Senate
Denver
State Department
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